Author Archives: Syndicated Content
COVID-19 disinformation backfires as Russian deaths climb, EU says
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A systematic disinformation campaign in Russian media to foster doubts and misgivings about COVID-19 vaccines in the West has backfired as the death toll in Russia...
Oct 21, 2021
Plastics to outpace coal's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 -report
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The carbon-intensive production of plastics is on pace to emit more greenhouse gases than coal-fired power plants within this decade, undercutting global ef...
Oct 21, 2021
Haiti's 400 Mawozo rose from petty crime gang to major kidnapping ring
By Gessika Thomas and Brian Ellsworth PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's 400 Mawozo gang, which kidnapped a group of U.S. and Canadian missionaries over the weekend, started out as small-time local th...
Oct 21, 2021
Regret and defiance in Europe's vaccine-shy east as COVID-19 rages
By Janis Laizans and Tsvetelia Tsolova RIGA/SOFIA (Reuters) - As Latvia goes into lockdown and hospitals in Bulgaria and Romania buckle under a COVID-19 surge while Poland sells surplus vaccine doses,...
Oct 21, 2021
South African union accepts wage offer, paving way for strike to end
By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's biggest metalworkers union said on Thursday that it had accepted a three-year wage offer in the steel and engineering sector, paving the wa...
Oct 21, 2021
Poland won't bow to EU "blackmail" but will seek to fix rows - PM
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday Warsaw would not bow to the "blackmail" of central EU institutions assuming the right to decide on competences of member ...
Oct 21, 2021
U.S. says it is concerned by 'erosion of human rights' in Hong Kong
(Reuters) - The U.S. said it remained seriously concerned by what it called "the continued erosion of human rights" in Hong Kong and urged authorities to release those who were "unjustly detained". "W...
Oct 21, 2021
Minnesota ex-officer resentenced to 57 months in prison for Australian woman's shooting death
(Reuters) -A Minnesota judge on Thursday sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor to 57 months in prison, the maximum penalty possible, for fatally shooting an Australian woman after s...
Oct 21, 2021
Hospitalised Czech president shown in video as his office counters critics
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Aides to Czech President Milos Zeman on Thursday showed a video of him signing a decree to convene a new parliament while in hospital a week ago, seeking to defend their handling of...
Oct 21, 2021
Poland backs sanctions on airlines transporting migrants to Belarus
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland supports imposing sanctions on airlines transporting migrants hoping to enter the European Union to Belarus, the interior minister said in a letter to his German counterpart ...
Oct 21, 2021
